The shovel-nosed snake, which is found in the Mojave Desert of the southeast United States, has an elongated body and low-friction skin, which allow it to swim through sand rapidly and efficiently. It is shown here in a bed of sand in a Georgia Tech laboratory. (Credit: Jason Maderer)

Slick and slender snake beats short and stubby lizard in sand swimming

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For swimming through sand, a slick and slender snake can perform better than a short and stubby lizard.

Georgia Tech researcher Alenka Zajic measures electromagnetic emissions from various components of a desktop computer. The researchers have studied emissions from desktop and laptop computers, as well as cellphones. (Credit: Rob Felt)

Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers

Atlanta, GA

Researchers are investigating the sources of information “leaks” that could provide information to hackers about what computers and cellphones are doing.

Top row, left to right: Melissa Kemp, Krish Roy, Susan Thomas. Bottom row, left to right: Manu Platt, M.G. Finn, Ravi Bellamkonda.

The Buzz on Bioscience

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The biosciences are big at Georgia Tech. Researchers discuss what’s happening and how they see the future.

Magnus Egerstedt, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is conducting research on controlling swarms of robots that coordinate their own activities to accomplish tasks. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Co-robots Team Up with Humans

Atlanta, GA

Robots are teaming up with humans to perform tasks in manufacturing, health care, national defense and other areas.

Magnus Egerstedt, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is conducting research on controlling swarms of robots that coordinate their own activities to accomplish tasks. (Photo: Rob Felt)

Co-robots Team Up with Humans

Atlanta, GA

Robots are teaming up with humans to perform tasks in manufacturing, health care, national defense and other areas.

iDETECT is an easily administered, comprehensive system designed to improve neurologic assessment following mild traumatic brain injury, such as concussion sustained in athletic events and military conflict.

NFL honors Georgia Tech-Emory team for brain injury detection system

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Georgia Tech-Emory team wins award from NFL for brain injury detection system.

Georgia Tech Releases 2015 Emerging Cyber Threats Report

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In its latest Emerging Cyber Threats Report, Georgia Tech warns about loss of privacy; abuse of trust between users and machines; attacks against the mobile ecosystem; rogue insiders; and the increasing involvement of cyberspace in nation-state confl

Researchers hope to give building owners a number of different options at a variety of price points to retrofit their buildings and make them safer. Some of these options, like the shape-memory alloy brace, have never been tested before. Others have been tested, but not at this scale or capacity.

Retrofitting old buildings to make them earthquake safe

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Through a grant provided by the National Science Foundation, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology — along with their partners, are are testing retrofits that potentially can make these buildings safer and more secure.

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Columbia Engineering have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Shown is a sample of the material that could be the basis for unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, very light, and extremely bendable and stretchable. (Credit: Rob Felt)

Researchers develop world’s thinnest electric generator

Atlanta, GA

Researchers have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide.

A sidewinder snake is shown in a sand-filled trackway at Zoo Atlanta. Researchers from Georgia Tech, Carnegie-Mellon University, Zoo Atlanta and Oregon State University studied the snakes to understand the unique motion they use to climb sandy slopes. (Credit: Rob Felt)

Snakes and snake-like robots show how sidewinders conquer sandy slopes

Atlanta, GA

Researchers have learned how sidewinder snakes climb sandy slopes, and put that knowledge to work with a snake-like robot.